The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
Terry PratchettWhat was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
Terry PratchettTruly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
Terry PratchettShe was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Terry PratchettIt is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground," he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. "You know what I mean anyway...
Terry PratchettAt some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.
Terry PratchettDon't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
"Can't we do anything about it?"
"No!"
"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.
Stichwörter: humor
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly.
The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.
Stichwörter: class law policing
Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: responsibility
No!” Moist's fist thumped the table. “Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward!
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